Dear şahika,
A must-read for you is Teresa Amabile who wrote quite a number of relevant
books and papers on the topic. On the following website you get an
overview of them.
http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=pub&facId=6409
Best regards,
Henri Christiaans
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Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft
Head of Master Specialisation Retail Design
Course Director TopTech Retail Design & Management
Visiting professor Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL)
Editor-in-chief Journal of Design Research (www.inderscience.com/jdr)
Landbergstraat 15, 2628 CE Delft, the Netherlands
T: +31 (0)152 783 063
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http://www.io.tudelft.nl/newretail
On 11/20/11 8:58 AM, "şahika etemoglu" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Dear Terence Love;
>Thank you so much for the precious information you have given. All the
>sources that you direct and the ideas that you share will be very helpful
>for my research.I will try to indicate (sometimes - the importance of)
>those factors especially for in-house designers (domestic) and will point
>out the current situation(surveys, interviews).As you have mentioned, it
>is
>more complex than commonly described in the literature.I will try to keep
>many aspects in mind...
>Best regards
>Sahika
>
>2011/11/20 PHD-DESIGN automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]>
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>> There is 1 message totaling 108 lines in this issue.
>>
>> Topics of the day:
>>
>> 1. about my research - motivation factors
>>
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>>
>> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:03:29 +0800
>> From: Terence Love <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: about my research - motivation factors
>>
>> Dear Sahika,
>>
>> You ask an interesting question.
>>
>> My experience has been that the role of 'motivation factors is typically
>> more complex than commonly described in the literature.
>>
>> There has been a tendency in the literature on motivation to view things
>> in
>> terms of simple influence, i.e.
>> "Motivation factor -> pressure on individual -> change in individual's
>> feelings, decisions and behaviours"
>>
>> Empirical research that maps out all the organisaitonal processes in
>> motivational situations reveals the ways motivational factors shape
>> outcomes is much more complex and powerful than 'simple influence'.
>>
>> Careful empirical analysis of how motivational pressures are applied
>>shows
>> that situations involving motivation are typically complex and dynamic
>>and
>> the motivational factors are the merely the visible sign of a system of
>> controlling the distribution of resources and benefits that over time
>> benefits and inhibits different groups differently. It is common that
>> motivation factors can result in increased individual outputs yet worse
>> outcomes for the individual and the organisation.
>>
>> Commonly, more significant than 'pressure on an individual from a
>> motivational factor' is the way that each motivational factor is part
>>of a
>> dynamic feedback system that influences the ways resources and benefits
>>are
>> distributed over time amongst a group. Typically, these systems act over
>> time in multiple ways against particular sub-groups by limiting their
>> access
>> to resources and their ability to progress, whilst systematically
>> redistributing benefits of the endeavour to other more privileged
>> sub-groups. Looking at an individual motivation factor or pressure is
>> like
>> looking through a keyhole in a way that obscures the action of the
>>overall
>> motivational process.
>>
>> Over the last century, it has become common to use metrics as the basis
>>for
>> such managerial influence and more recently this commonly involves the
>>use
>> of information systems that measure different forms of individual output
>> (new designs per month etc).
>>
>> Systems design tools are an easily accessible way to reveal the detail
>>of
>> the overall influence and functioning of motivational systems over and
>> beyond the effects of the individual motivational factors that indicate
>> their presence.
>>
>> Myself and Dr Trudi Cooper wrote up an example of such an analysis in:
>> Love, T., & Cooper, T. (2008). Motivational Information Systems: Case
>>study
>> of a University Research Productivity Index and 6th Extension to Ashby's
>> Law
>> Paper presented at the ANZSYS'08: 14th International Conference, Perth,
>>WA
>> (pre-print available at
>> http://www.love.com.au/PublicationsTLminisite/publications.htm ).
>>
>> Another way of seeing this situation is with motivation systems acting
>>as
>> an
>> organisaitonal process structure that is an inverse of the structures
>>of
>> single, double and triple loop learning systems of organisational change
>> (see, Senge et al).
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Terry
>> ____________________
>> Dr. Terence Love, FDRS, AMIMechE, PMACM, MISI
>>
>> Senior Lecturer, Design
>> Researcher, Social Program Evaluation Research Unit
>> Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
>> Mob: 0434 975 848, Fax +61(0)8 9305 7629, [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Senior Lecturer, Dept of Design
>> Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
>>
>> Director, Design Out Crime Research Centre
>> Honorary Researcher, Institute of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise
>> Development
>> Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
>> ____________________
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and
>>related
>> research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>>sahika
>> etemoglu
>> Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2011 6:35 AM
>> To: Dr Terence Love
>> Subject: about my research - motivation factors
>>
>> Dear List Members,
>> I'am doing research on human resource management on design for my MSc
>> dissertation at Istanbul Technical University, and I am looking into the
>> factor affecting the motivation of individual designers in in-house
>>design
>> groups in manufacturing industries.
>> I'll be delighted if you could provide, or direct me to the specific
>> literature on HRM in design field if any.
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Sahika
>> Istanbul, tr
>>
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